Too Busy to Work

During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.

Runtime

2h 19m

Director

Tony Richardson

Cast

Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud

France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.

Runtime

2h 30m

Director

D.W. Griffith

Cast

Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut

Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll. They become romantic on board a ship sent to take them to a larger island. They agree to meet in New York three months later to see if the attraction is real. One shows up but the other doesn't. However, a chance meeting bri...

Runtime

1h 48m

Director

Glenn Gordon Caron

Cast

Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Katharine Hepburn

Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.

Runtime

1h 50m

Director

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Cast

Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon

City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.

Runtime

1h 41m

Director

Anatole Litvak

Cast

Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price

In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've ...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Joey Ansah

Leung is the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even Wong's son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destr...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Vincent Sze Cho-Lam, Richard Ng Yiu-Hon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa